Getting NMM to detect all of my installed mods

[Inglorious89]

I just put in a new CPU and mobo in my PC, and as a result had to make the switch to Windows 10. I was able to save all of the files from Windows 7, including my Skyrim folder. Unfortunately, I deleted my old version of NMM and had to reinstall. As a result, when I first booted up NMM it couldn't locate any of the mods I downloaded, either from in my Skyrim directory or in NMM's files (which, it obviously can't because this is a fresh install and there aren't any mods installed), so it told me to locate these non-existent mods or to uninstall every mod from NMM. I did the latter as it didn't seem like I had a choice. So right now NMM is showing no mods installed, but my Skyirm directory has all of my mods sitting there. Skyirm is full functional right now, it's just that I can't do anything to the mods through NMM because it isn't detecting anything.

 

How can I get NMM to look at my Skyrim directory so it can see all of my installed mods and get to detecting all of them? I've surfed through the options menu in NMM and I couldn't find anything that would do this.

[RoninMLG]

When u fresh install nmm,it will ask you for a folder for mods to be stored.find that folder location and cut and past your mods in there. then restart nmm. like this http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/19/1463085662-folder-nmm.png

Edited July 4, 2018 by RoninMLG

[Grospolina]

NMM hard links files from the "VirtualInstall" folder (one folder for each mod) into the Skyrim Data directory. If you've deleted this folder, then there's no way to get it back other than reinstalling all of your mods. NMM cannot detect your mods and sort them back into their original folders. If you have the download archives (rar, 7z), them put them into the NMM "mods" directory.

 

The reason your mods are working fine is because hard links work that way. The mods in your Data directory are now the same as if you manually installed them.

[wfandrews]

NMM keeps your mods in C:/Games/Nexus Mod Manager/Skyrim by default. The files in common/Skyrim/Data are pointers to the mod files in that default location. When you reinstalled NMM it should have created that folder in C:/Games. Although from what I understand you need to download and install the mod before it is available in that folder. There should be an "Old" folder on your hard drive which windows created when it installed the new OS. You might be able to go to that folder and copy and paste the files from your old C:/games etc to the one in your new OS.